This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career.Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "Identity and Necessity", "Outline of a Theory of Truth", "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference", and "A Puzzle About Belief." More recent published articles include "Russell's Notion of Scope" and "Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference" among others. Several articles are published here for the first time, including both older works ("Two Paradoxes of Knowledge", "Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities", "Nozick on Knowledge") as well as newer ("The First Person" and "Unrestricted Exportation"). "A Puzzle on Time and Thought" was written expressly for this volume.Publication of this volume -- which ranges over epistemology, linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, theory of truth, and metaphysics -- represents a major event in contemporary analytic philosophy. It will be of great interest to the many who are interested in the work of one its greatest living figures.

ContentsIntroductionAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Identity and NecessityChapter 2. On Two Paradoxes of KnowledgeChapter 3. Vacuous Names and Fictional EntitiesChapter 4. Outline of a Theory of TruthChapter 5. Speaker's Reference and Semantic ReferenceChapter 6. A Puzzle About BeliefChapter 7. Nozick on KnowledgeChapter 8. Russell's Notion of ScopeChapter 9. Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference: Some Exegetical NotesChapter 10. The First PersonChapter 11. Unrestricted Exportation and and Some Morals for the Philosophy of LanguageChapter 12. Presupposition and Anaphora:Remarks on the Formulation of the Projection ProblemChapter 13. A Paradox about Time and ThoughtIndex